A federal judge has ruled that the Unites States government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and under.

The decision, on a fraught and politically controversial subject, comes after a decade-long fight over who should have access to the pill and under what circumstances, and it counteracts an unprecedented move by the Obama administration's Health and Human Services secretary who in 2011 overruled a recommendation by the Food and Drug Administration to make the pill available for all ages without a prescription.

They have all the power in the universe. They make the laws. They direct the legislature. They control the executive branch. If the judge orders the US government to jump, the government must say, "How high, Sir?"

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posted on 04/05/2013 5:49:06 AM PDT
by ClearCase_guy
(The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)

This will probably make it much easier for girls to protect their “older” (adult predator) boyfriends. The girls won’t get pregnant, they won’t have to go to planned parenthood, they won’t have to face angry parents because of a pregnancy, and best of all for the older boyfriend, the police don’t get involved.

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posted on 04/05/2013 5:49:46 AM PDT
by Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)

What makes you think the government isn’t already doing this. Take the pill, flush it away, it enters the water cycle. Feminizes the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain.

This decision, especially when considered in the context of the introduction of The Pill in the early 1960s, will have far more effect on the institution of marriage and the culture of the country than will the ultimate legalization of homosexual marriage.

Taking these pills is not without risk. In the near future we will learn the risk percentages, because the government now has human guinea pigs to test this drug.

This is a godsend to pimps. They can force their teenaged prostitutes to take the drug on a regular basis. Then when the girl bleeds out, the pimp can just deposit her body in a local dumpster, and go get another teenage girl to turn out.

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posted on 04/05/2013 6:01:38 AM PDT
by Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)

I brought that up in a way, in post #9. Life saving drugs are being denied to cancer patients. Why doesn’t the judge just order the F.D.A. to provide life saving drugs to cancer clinics? Oh wait. It’s because the drugs might SAVE LIVES! It doesn’t END them. Sorry, my bad.

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posted on 04/05/2013 6:11:55 AM PDT
by Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)

Libertarians have often asked, who owns your body. Government wants to control what you eat and what medicine you can take. Indeed, many people are in jail at this very moment for “possession of a controlled substance”. Government SWAT teams descend upon farmers selling raw milk to willing customers in private transactions, not to mention raiding health food stores for selling vitamin pills it thinks should not be sold.

I can make up my own mind, thank you.

It is a shame that these issues comes to light due to demand for an abortifactant, a medicine that causes a fertilized egg to be be flushed out of a woman’s body instead of being able to finish gestation at term. If life begins at conception, the “Plan B” bill destroys a life.

Having said that, the issue returns to the fact that one human cannot own the life of another. This was how the Supreme Court decision Scott v Sanford insulted reason and human rights. In this decision, the Court ruled that Negro slaves were the property of their owners. The effect of Roe v Wade was that the unborn child was not a human with its own right to life, but instead was the property of its mother.

I reject the government’s claim to have power to regulate what I put in my body. My power over my body is a right that I reserve as unalienable and protected by the Tenth Amendment. My body is not a factor in “interstate commerce”. If there is any value to Roe v Wade that was to elaborate the unalienable right to privacy which I also claim as it pertains to what I put in my body, that is: it is my private business alone.

When a woman conceives a child, no matter what the circumstance, she has a fiduciary responsibility for the life and welfare of that separate human life until it can sustain itself. That is why conception is such a serious matter and must be protected by society.

Just because nobody else may know of the conception does not make the new life any less human and any less endowed by the Creator with the right to life. But if she kills that new life, she will have to answer to God, and not human law. We would not want to live in a society where women’s menstrual cycles are tracked (like in China at one time), in order to police unauthorized conceptions or to track the disposition of a pregnancy.

No, they’ve been trying for a long time to get abortion out of the clinics and into the pharmacy.

PP is not really about money. You don’t really grasp what animates them: hatred, hatred for life.

Their real purpose is libertine sex and they support anything that makes that more libertine. They don’t even care about the profits from surgical abortions (especially since they have the Gubmint gravy train behind them).

What they care about is making abortion easy and accessible. Put it into the pharmacy, remove the free-standing clinics as targets for pro-life protesters. It ends up with the same amount of abortions, if not more, but it removes the visible target.

They might still get some business. If it’s available OTC, then it’s something that has to be paid for with cash. If the girl can’t pay for it, then she still might turn to PP. But if an older predator is wanting to terminate a possible pregnancy to avoid all the grief it will cause, I can’t believe he would be so stupid that he wouldn’t give her the money for the pills. Predator boyfriends operate in the shadows and they want the sexual relationship to STAY THERE.

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posted on 04/05/2013 6:34:08 AM PDT
by Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)

I went to Walgreens to buy a box of syringes to administer insulin to my basset, who has diabetes. They wouldn’t sell them to me. Even asking them to call my vet did no good. And they wouldn’t tell me why.

But this Plan ‘Bortion pill will be treated like free mints in the bowl at a chinese buffet?

I wonder what the judge would say if he were standing in line at the pharmacy and a 9 year old girl bought a morning after pill. Would it occur to him that perhaps CPS might be interested, or perhaps the police should be summoned?

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posted on 04/05/2013 6:36:13 AM PDT
by Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)

This pretty well sums it up. Makes you wonder, if and when Obamacare is implemented in its intended single payer system, if there won't be a system that identifies - first and foremost - your political affiliation. It will most likely be the building block from which all medical decisions concerning your care, will be built upon!

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posted on 04/05/2013 6:45:59 AM PDT
by liberalh8ter
(The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)

It is unlikely that the judge is a physician. Sadly however there are many physicians who would agree to this ( ask me how I know)

The left believes that sex should be consequence free, it is a lie that they sell with big profit margins. Human sexual intercourse was designed by God to produce children. Anything else is a perversion that has multiple serious consequences that cannot be wished away even by judicial fiat.

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posted on 04/05/2013 6:49:18 AM PDT
by longfellowsmuse
(last of the living nomads)

Gee,,are we now one step closer to our children being forced to take these, since they are going to be so readily available? Isn’t Planned Parenthood going to be ticked off? This may greatly decrease their business.

maybe something like that is happening because have you seen many student aged guys today.
Boy they’re like little girls, probably never had a fight in their life , never got dirty and act like little sissies and think the world is all about them

We're going to see a lot of dead little girls because of this. The pill is designed as a morning after. What if a little girl is 3-4 months pregnant and decides she wants to take these pills by the handful because she changed her mind about having the child? If the child isn't completely removed from the mothers body after it's killed, it will rot inside her.

so now boyfriends can slip their pregnant girlfriends this pill?....incredible...

On the bright side, at least the boys will have some say in the reproduction debate. He can just keep sneaking her these pills just in case.

Girls won't need birth control pills anymore. They can just take one pill, dump the kid, and go back to playing.

You don't war with nature and expect to win. These girls are going to take so many of these pills, something is going to go very wrong.

Eggs have been removed from under chickens for so long, most American breeds of chickens no longer know how to hatch their eggs. It's been bred out of them. If it weren't for machines hatching eggs, these chickens would be extinct today. They can no longer propagate on their own.So many mothers have their babies and drop them off at day care centers, mothers no longer know how to be mothers. The unconditional love a mother should have for her infant has been bred out of them. Today, the "village" raises the child, and it's not turning out well at all. Kids think sex is love. They don't know the difference, because they've never experienced love. "Mommy" was too busy at work to teach them.

I wish it didn’t exist. But since it exists and is legal, I actually prefer it this way, because now doctors are not involved in the process.

On the other hand, it is sad, tragic even that a kid can buy a pill that will at least remove part of her living tissue from her body forcibly and unnaturally, and in reality will kill a child, but CANNOT buy an anti-histamine because someone is afraid that child is too immature to know not to abuse the drug, or worse to make it into meth.

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